Emilie Mayer (1812-83) had eight symphonies to her name but, after finding that her gender hampered her orchestral music gaining public performances, she turned to chamber music. The string quartet offered, perhaps, a place for her to forget the restrictions of 19th-century society. Mayer proves herself a masterful exponent of classical forms with subtle plays of musical lines and delicate harmonies, even in the economy of the string quartet. Seven of her twelve quartets have survived. After the acclaimed first volume of quartets by Mayer, the Salzburg-based Constanze Quartet (violinists Emeline Pierre-Larsen and Sara Mayer, violist Hana Hubmer, and cellist Julia Ammerer-Simma) present Volume 2 featuring the Quartet in G minor, Op. 14 and the Quartet in F minor; leaving three works to fill a third album in the near future.